Experimentations

As humans, our nature compels us to modify our behavior to tackle incipient challenges. But we differ in how those modifications emerge. For example, children exhibit a wide array of behaviors following a standard inoculation; indicating that each child returns to a calm state through…

When testing children in the laboratory, we often face the challenge of designing tasks that can both be completed quickly and produce rich data. Here we illustrate the workings of a novel task developed with the Child Brain Development Lab that made use of an…

How might individuals benefit from diversity in their experiences? Functionalist theories of emotion suggest that the dynamics of daily life can activate a diversity of emotions because each emotion (e.g., excitement, fear, anger) serves specific adaptive purposes by prioritizing, organizing, and regulating behavior in ways…

During our interdisciplinary travels we have noted that biologists and ecologists often use methodological approaches that are, even with relatively small amounts of empirical data, informative about the latent processes underlying observed phenomena (i.e., the stuff under the blanket). Systems biology, for instance, makes use…

We were invited to write a chapter on ‘Intraindividual Variability Over the Life Span”. The editors provided us an opportunity for new “outside the box” explorations. So we started pulling together some of the things we have been playing with in the last months. The…

According to a paper written by Ram, Coccia, Conroy, Lorek, Orland, Pincus, Sliwinski and Gerstorf entitled ‘Behavioral Landscapes and Change in Behavioral Landscapes: A Multiple Time-Scale Density Distribution Approach’ it states that the ‘notions of personality have progressed beyond the idea that people are well…

Cortisol Data is a study by Nilam Ram on how people regulate their stress levels after going through a stressful situation in life. This study was done with 34 people by measuring their cortisol level when under stress and how quickly they regulate it back…

Studiolab’s data was exhibited at Patterson Gallery recently as part of Tom Lauerman’s Digital Hand class in which Matthew Kenney was part of. Some of his experimentations with the data towers for iSAHIB as well as the pen plotter emotional landscape drawings and laser cut…

Progressing with efforts in prototyping, the data towers that Matt has created is now fed through the MakerBot Replicator 2 to print in 3D. This allows for iSAHIB data to be touched, sensed and held. The image below showS a section of the data towers…

Moving onto further steps with our prototyping processes, here are a series of pen plotted prints made of Matt Kenney’s 3D renderings in Rhino. Pen plotters as defined by Wikipedia “prints by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper.” Normally restraint…